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U.S.A. is the great three-volume complex by America's greatest living novelist. The master design began with "The 42nd Parallel", was continued with "Nineteen Nineteen" and completed by "The Big Money." It is universally acclaimed as the classic portrait of a whole American generation, which fought the first of the century's wars to achieve the ... more »illusion of the 20's and experience the disillusion of the 30's. Alfred Kazin has said of this book: "Technically, U.S.A. is one of the great achievements of the modern novel, yet the book lives by its narrative style, the wonderfully concrete yet elliptical prose which bears along and winds around the life stories in the book like a conveyor belt carrying Americans through some vast Ford plant of the human spirit. U.S.A. is a national epic, the first great national epic of its kind in the modern American novel...but the great thing about U.S.A. is that though it sweeps up so many human lives together and intones their waste and illusion and defeat so steadily, we seem to be swept along with them, and to see each life perfectly at the moment it passes by us." This is the first one-volume edition to contain the Reginald Marsh illustrations.« less